National Catholic Reporter: Content by Sr. Rose Pacatte

Cannes, France, located on the French Riviera and not too far from the Italian border, has been the home of the Cannes International Film Festival since its beginning in 1946. …

On May 18 an ecumenical celebration of cinema took place here in Cannes. There was a Sunday Mass at Notre Dame de Bon Voyage Church that is directly across the …

On May 18 an ecumenical celebration of cinema took place here in Cannes. There was a Sunday Mass at Notre Dame de Bon Voyage Church that is directly across the …

The ecumenical jury at Cannes was inaugurated in 1974, following the efforts of the organization Interfilm. Delegates from various European Protestant film associations founded Interfilm in 1955. According to the …

The documentary “Leaving Neverland” — produced and directed by Dan Reed — is a slowly spun, gently told tragedy that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
While the filmmaker …

By 1971, Ann Atwater (Taraji P. Henson) and C.P. Ellis (Sam Rockwell) had been on opposite sides for a decade. Ann was an indefatigable African American civil rights activist, advocate …

“Unplanned” is a new film from Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon, both known for the Evangelical paranoia, audience-bait trilogy “God’s Not Dead.” They have teamed up again for a true-life …

Blase Anthony Bonpane, a former Maryknoll priest and founder with his wife, Theresa (née Killeen), of the Office of the Americas, died two weeks shy of his 90th birthday on …

Filmmaker Alison Klayman was a one-woman crew for her new documentary, “The Brink,” about the scruffy, underdressed — but always wearing two shirts — former White House strategist and executive …

In the year A.D. 33, Mary (Rooney Mara) is a young woman — in the new film “Mary Magdalene” — who spends her days with the women of Magdala along …

Director Patrick Creadon’s new documentary, “Hesburgh,” named for its compelling subject, the cigar-smoking Holy Cross Fr. Theodore Martin Hesburgh, is a sweeping biography of a man whose towering influence in …

In the Easter Vigil reading from Romans, Paul writes:

“Are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were indeed buried with him …